New York (CNN) -- To the delight of fans back home in Tokyo, Hideki Matsui drove in six of the New York Yankees' seven runs in their World Series-winning victory Wednesday and became the first Japanese-born player to win a series Most Valuable Player award. For much of his career, Matsui was a star player for the Tokyo Giants. Matsui's key role in the series highlights the close ties between American and Japanese baseball. Playing in the Yankees' new stadium, the successor to the "House that Ruth Built," Matsui's performance brought to mind the key role that Babe Ruth played in the development of professional baseball in Japan, according to Robert Fitts, author of several books on Japanese baseball.


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Japan found this quite insulting, even though they had agreed to it in the 1920s.


A little girl with Down's syndrome has learnt to walk, talk and even dance - all through copying her big sister. Two-year-old Ellie Harrington, from Ely, Cambridgeshire, has started walking early in order to keep up with four-year-old sister Evie. Their parents, Lisa Moden, 42 and Mark Harrington, 43, say it's the desire to be like her sister that has helped Ellie to develop so quickly. Ellie Harrington, 2, has learnt to walk, talk and even dance through copying her four-year-old sister Evie The pair play together 24/7 and love dressing up as princesses, their mother said. 'Evie's relationship with Ellie is very special, very close'

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Evie loved her little sister from the moment she saw her, she was no different in her eyes.


It was meant to be a fun-filled trip with his family to Disney World, but reality set in for a former senior Venezuelan judge when he stepped off a flight in Miami and federal agents carted him off to jail. Benny Palmeri-Bacchi, 46, never made it to the Orlando theme park, and instead today it was revealed he will now be spending at least 20 years in prison over links to Colombian drug cartels. Mr Palmeri walked into the 'bear trap' in July after a secretive and far-reaching inquiry by US investigators into links between Venezuelan government officials and Colombian 'narcos'.

The indictment alleged, Mr
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Palmeri threatened an estate agent by emailing photographs of a man being murdered and videos of prisoners being sodomised in Venezuelan prisons.